From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
Date: 2005-08-04T10:58:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby SMTP server library ?

James Britt wrote:
> Kirk Haines wrote:
>> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 4:27 pm, Lothar Scholz wrote:
>>> Is there any library that implements a simple SMTP, allowing me to send
>>> emails directly instead using the service from my web hoster that
>>> requires stupid things like POP3 before SMTP.
>>
>> I'd love to see even the front end of something like that.  Just 
>> enough of an SMTP server to receive and email from a client and then 
>> let the rest of the code decide what to do with it (dump it to a file 
>> somewhere, or silently discard would both be valuable).
> 
> Yes.  It would be sweet to be able to E-mail an application and have it 
> respond with stats ("Dear program, how are you?"), or encrypt the 
> content and E-mail updates to your running code while away.

I think Lothar was asking about the sending end of the transaction. As 
for the receiving end, any real MTA gives you the ability to specify the 
  delivery agent--deliver to a mailbox, pipe to a process, whatever. 
It's not Ruby, but it'd be pretty simple to set up Postfix to do just 
what you said. Postfix is pretty.

Steve